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England West Midlands bird call Id help please (1 Viewer)

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Spadge24

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Today (20 August , middle of the day) I heard a new call from a tree in my garden, which adjoins scrubby woodland. It repeated the same phrase over and over. Eee diddy ee diddy ee diddy ee diddy ee dit. The Eee was scratchy. I think I may have heard a second call the same from a few trees away. The call was different from the usual calls I hear, but most similar to great tit or chiff chaff. I have listened to all the common bird calls I can find online and nothing I found matched it.

Unfortunately it stopped before I could record it. Any ideas?
 
Thank you, I appreciate the suggestion but it wasn’t that. The Ee is somewhat similar but the diddy was two clear beats and quite different from the Great Tit’s didididididi…
Perhaps I just have a Great Tit with hiccups!
 
Spadge24 said:
Thank you, I appreciate the suggestion but it wasn’t that. The Ee is somewhat similar but the diddy was two clear beats and quite different from the Great Tit’s didididididi…
Perhaps I just have a Great Tit with hiccups!
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Well, great tits have up to 40 types of calls/songs so it cannot be ruled out :) Maybe it was a Great Tit, maybe it was another tit...We may never know without a recording. If you hear that call once again I hope you'll be able to record it so people on BF will clinch the ID :) As for now let's wait for the others - maybe someone will have a brainwave!
 
By the way, have you tried Merlin App? It contains a great amount of birds' calls and songs along with their photos. Maybe try listening to tits in your area using this app, so you can find the one you've heard?
 
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Southern Viking said:
The Merlin app has ID'd a juvenile Starling contact call as a Red-legged Partridge, so not to be relied upon (many other errors no doubt).
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You got me wrong. I didn't mean to ID calls using the Merlin App. I meant to search a certain species and listen to its calls. Please don't suggest that I've said things I haven't said.
 
JayFeatherPL said:
You got me wrong. I didn't mean to ID calls using the Merlin App. I meant to search a certain species and listen to its calls.
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I wasn't replying to your post? So not sure how I got you wrong. In as far as the best bird database app though, the one called "Bird Call Xeno" is by far the more comprehensive for bird calls globally.
 
Southern Viking said:
I wasn't replying to your post? So not sure how I got you wrong. In as far as the best bird database app though, the one called "Bird Call Xeno" is by far the more comprehensive for bird calls globally.
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Well I was the only person who wrote about listening to calls using Merlin App and when you replied about the disadvantages of the Merlin App I thought you were replying to me. We misunderstood each other. And I haven't heard about the "Bird Call Xeno". I used to use either the Merlin App or xeno-canto.org
Thanks for recommendation!
 

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